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Pete Sharma’s six greatest IATEFL Manchester moments

Pete Sharma’s Top Six IATEFL moments

1 The start of Will Nash and David Read’s presentation

They’d recorded a green screen video of themselves talking. They then had a ‘conversation’ with their on-screen talking heads. Best moment? Will on-screen taunting newly shaven off-screen Will: “Where’s the beard?”

(A similar effect achieved by Shaun Wilden and Nikola Fortova in their session on apps, using an avatar)

I tried on Google Glass. Not the best moment of the conference, as I’d just learned seconds before that glass was being discontinued. And I wear glasses, so, er, I couldn’t actually see anything much…

2 Aurasma with Stephen Pilton

I’d read the article in Modern English Teacher. I’d used the pictures in that article to demonstrate Augmented Reality. But I didn’t really quite ‘get’ Aurasma until this session. A refreshingly humorous session in the midst of the intellectual earnestness.